When August Rodin exhibited his first freestanding figure "The Bronze Age" in 1877, it caused a furious controversy. Faced with the precision of its anatomical detail and its uncannily lifelike sense of moveement, many spectators claimed that it was almost certainly cast from a live model. It wasn't. They were simply unprepared for the shock of encounntering the work of the greatest sculpptor since Michelangelo.
The Fianna Fail leader is immobilized on his front bench on policy and on the future of his party. Like an arthritic vulture he sits poised on the opposition benches waiting for government to fall down dead. By Olivia O'Leary.
Five weeks on the picket line, three days occupying the factory, one night in jail — and finally something had broken. And it wasn't the Ault & Wiborg strikers. They came out of the High Court on Tuesday November 10 wearing wide smiles. “Thumbs up!”, said the photographer from the Independent, and five of the six obligingly raised their thumbs. The sixth striker, Bryan O'Duffy, gave a mischievous smile and raised two fingers in a victory sign. By Gene Kerrigan.
Saturday night, chewing the cud with Studs life, love, destiny, ambition, the vagaries of the human heart, that kind of thing — small talk. Nine o'clock comes round and she heads off to the night shift and I'm on my own and trying to figure some thing to pass the time. Long winter evenings, you can have them. By Gene Kerrigan
"The dark eleventh hour draws on and sees us sold, To every evil power we fought against of old. "
Kilrea, Co. Derry lies fifteen miles south of Coleraine and almost exactly halfway between Belfast and Derry city. It is a small market town with a population of 1500 people and an electoral ward of 3,000. The Troubles notwithstanding, Kilrea continues to function successfully as a market town and on the average Wednesday the liveestock sales will handle approximately 600 cattle and 500 pigs.
The kind of guy Lazy Pete Maguire is - when he says jump! most people in the vicinity put some air between their feet and the ground; When Pete is angry he uses his voice the way some people use short lengths of lead pipe - persuasively. It's easy to underestimate Lazy Pete. Shading fiveesix in his cowboy boots and with a hairline like the tide going out, he looks like he was born tobe someone's caddy, toting another man's bag. Mr Mild. And most times he's got a first communion smile and manners to match. A regular pussycat.
"Somebody was pulling leg. We don't know who was behind it. We forgot all about it. We wish the Irish would. We are Catholics. The Irish are Catholics. We wish good relations."
If, like a lot of Irish people, you . thought that the Celts were the earliest inhabitants of Ireland, stand corrected. The earliest recorded inn. habitants of Ireland were the Tuaith De Danann. A simple mistake and one which JimFitzpatrick spends most of his working time and energy trying to rectify. For the last ten years now, Fitzzpatrick has 'been researching and illustratting their history and has produced one volume of that work, called "The Book Or-Conquests". That volume will be folllowed by two others, "The Silver Arm" and "The Son of the Sun".
Donncha 0 Dulaing was in his element. The centre of attention, thousands cheering. The leader hearing his every word.
"Every year at Siamsa Cois Laoi I do something out of the ordinary! Two years ago I had the distinction of being called a republican by the Irish Times! Well, since this is a republic I suppose we must all be republicans!"
Maureen Concannon O'Brien is the founder of the English Language Instiitute at 99 St. Stephen's Green. She came to Ireland in the late 50s to study in UCD, where she received a BA and Masters Degree in English, as well as a diploma in Psychoology.